How dependent is Italy on the United States?

A product has a dominant supplier when a single country sells more than 50% of what is bought of it; we flag it separately above 75%.

• The United States sells 24.6% of what the world exports of hormones; next come Ireland (48.5%), Denmark (3.8%) and China (3.5%). The rest of the world exported 4.7 times what Italy buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 10.6% of what the world exports of coal; next come Australia (33.5%), Indonesia (19.9%) and Russia (12.6%). The rest of the world exported 383.1 times what Italy buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 32.4% of what the world exports of navigation instruments; next come France (13%), United Kingdom (7.5%) and Germany (5.8%). The rest of the world exported 31.3 times what Italy buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.8% of what the world exports of petroleum coke and bitumen; next come Canada (9.4%), Singapore (5.3%) and United Arab Emirates (4.4%). The rest of the world exported 157.7 times what Italy buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 17% of what the world exports of military weapons; next come South Korea (27.3%), Poland (17%) and Azerbaijan (9%). The rest of the world exported 122.2 times what Italy buys from the United States.
• The United States sells 21.9% of what the world exports of armored vehicles; next come Canada (18.8%), South Korea (18.6%) and Germany (7.3%). The rest of the world exported 4,490.5 times what Italy buys from the United States.

Exports from the rest of the world already have buyers; the figure shows scale, not availability.

Italy is the United States’ 18th-largest customer, with 1.4% of its exports.

• Trade between Italy and the United States
• Who does Italy rely on?
• Who does the United States rely on?
• Dependence of Italy on China
• Dependence of Italy on Spain
• Dependence of Italy on France
• Dependence of Italy on Germany
• Dependence of Italy on the Netherlands
• Dependence of Italy on Switzerland
• Dependence of Italy on Brazil
• Trade profile of Italy
• Trade profile of the United States
• All countries

Sources and licenses

• CEPII BACI · Licence Ouverte Etalab 2.0
• Natural Earth · Public domain

Methodology

The data come from CEPII BACI (Etalab 2.0 licence), which reconciles what the exporting and the importing country report, in current USD, FOB. Data up to 2024.

Dependence is the share of a country’s imports (or exports) that each partner accounts for. It does not measure whether a product has a substitute or how much it would cost to change supplier.

The concentration index (HHI) adds up the square of each partner’s share, in percent: it runs from 0 to 10,000. Its equivalent is 10,000 ÷ HHI, the number of partners of the same size that would give that value.

Products are HS4 headings of the 1992 nomenclature (some combine different goods), with a floor of $1 million per product and country.

The EU is the 27 current members in every year; the United Kingdom is outside the EU throughout the series.

Re-exports: countries that act as redistribution hubs carry their notice and the figures are not corrected.